PAMM in the News

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a modern and contemporary art museum which opened in 2013. Located in a $131-million Art Deco-style building designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the museum houses 20th and 21th century art from around the world. Visitors enjoy stunning views of Biscayne Bay from the museum gardens and indoor exhibit spaces (website).

Thom Collins, who ushered the former Miami Art Museum into its lauded new bayfront home — and into a new name — is leaving his position as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami to lead the acclaimed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

Mr. Collins, known as Thom, has served for nearly five years as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, previously known as the Miami Art Museum and renamed in 2012 to recognize a multimillion-dollar gift of art and cash from the developer Jorge M. Pérez.

As PAMM gets set to celebrate its first birthday with another high-profile Miami Art Week bash Thursday, the museum, with its expansive terraces and bayfront restaurant, has firmly cemented its position as a must-see for Miamians and visitors alike.

Marvin and Ruth Sackner were first attracted to visual poetry because of its accessibility.
“When you have words in the artwork you can communicate easily,” says Marvin, a retired doctor who was chief of medicine at Mt. Sinai hospital in Miami Beach. “It’s an extrospective kind of art rather than introspective.”

Pérez Art Museum Miami Chief Curator, Tobias Ostrander, discusses the forthcoming retrospective exhibition of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes in Miami. The exhibition features over 40 works, including pieces from the early 1990s up to this year. It will be the artist’s first retrospective in the United States.

Consider the serape. That’s what artist Adrian Esparza did. He scrutinized it from every angle. He cut it up. He rearranged it. Finally, he unraveled it, using its threads to create a wall-size design, titled Wake and Wonder, commissioned for the December opening of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, or PAMM.

MIAMI — Hundreds of people on Tuesday witnessed Miami’s leading philanthropic community commit to fund, acquire and house African-American art in the newly opened Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
At a swank reception at the museum with the who’s who of arts and culture looking on, guests heard about the Pérez Art Museum Miami Fund for African American Art.

There couldn’t be a better exhibition to inaugurate the new Pérez Art Museum Miami than the traveling solo retrospective from the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Like the museum, "Ai Weiwei: According To What?" is monumental — physically huge, with a lot to say, and important for Miami.

There will be as many as 750 stainless steel bikes stacked on top of each other as part of the opening show for the brand new Pérez Art Museum Miami finally unveiling in just two weeks.The $220 million museum is opening in a big way, with a huge show of one of the most important figures in the art world, Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei.

Miami's status as a transnational city is highlighted in the programming and collecting strategies of the new Pérez Art Museum Miami, formerly the Miami Art Museum, which reopens Dec. 4 in a new location overlooking Biscayne Bay and bordered by MacArthur Causeway.

Hanging garden designer Patrick Blanc, left, consults his plan as his much-talked about hanging gardens, designed to withstand salt, air, and wind blasts and brighten up the concrete structure of the new Perez Art Museum Miami are installed on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013.

Something hanging around one South Florida museum is sure to catch the eye of residents and visitors alike. The dangling display is part of a new art institution set to open in a matter of weeks, a major milestone for the Perez Art Museum Miami.

Pérez Art Museum Miami has received a $1 million grant, funded equally by Jorge M. Pérez and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, for the purchase of contemporary works by African American artists for the museum’s permanent collection.

Pérez Art Museum Miami was selected as one of 66 finalists in the Miami Knight Arts Challenge. PAMM plans to celebrate its new waterfront home with a series of monthly arts projects produced collaboratively by local and international artists

When the Miami Art Museum started to outgrow its cramped quarters in Philip Johnson’s Miami-Dade Cultural Center, museum officials and board members selected Herzog and de Meuron to design a new building (now dubbed the Pérez Art Museum Miami) right on Museum Park overlooking Biscayne Bay.

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